with Black moving forward with his career as a solo artist. Blakroc CD 1 On The Vista w/Mos Def listen 2 Hard Times w/ NOE listen 3 Dollaz & Sense w/ Pharoahe Monch, RZA listen 4 Why Cant I Forget Him - Nicole Wray. The loose, spontaneous nature of the exercise means there's the odd dud, but there are far more hits than misses. Titled Blakroc 2, the album is simply coming soon, with no official release date as of. The Cool Kids Working On Track For BlackRoc Album from Andrew Barber on Vimeo. The oldest of 12 kids (some sources say nine), Mos Def was raised by his mother, Sheron, whom he calls Umi. Mos Def was born Dante Terrell Smith on December 11, 1973, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Star turns include Ludacris and ODB leering all over Coochie, and R&B singer and former Missy Elliott protГ©gГ©e Nicole Wray swaggering through Done Did It, with help from Baltimore newcomer NOE, whose Jay-Z impression is so spot-on he could well be the hip-hop Alistair McGowan. In the following video, The Cool Kids can be seen working on a track that Chuck produced alongside Dame Dash, Sean Price, Thirstin Howl III and the Black Keys that could very well be the first preview of the next album. Born Dante Terrell Smith, December 11, 1973, in Brooklyn, NY son of Abdul (Abi) Rahman and Sheron (Umi) Smith. The Black Keys knock out a lo-fi riff, the rappers strut about, sticking to the themes that have preoccupied both bluesmen and MCs throughout the years, notably sex, heartbreak and cash.

Wisely, Blakroc вЂ“ a rough'n'ready project comprised of white blues duo the Black Keys and a roster of MCs, including the RZA, Mos Def and, from beyond the grave, Ol' Dirty Bastard вЂ“ take things right back to basics. Linkin Park's album with Jay-Z might have sold well but you wouldn't want to listen to it unless you were cross about being made to tidy your room. From there on in, the whole notion was hijacked by white men dressing and behaving like toddlers, waddling around in over-sized shorts and shouting rude words. Then the soundtrack to forgettable 1993 action flick Judgment Night ruined everything, pairing Ice-T with Slayer, Faith No More with giant Samoan hip-hop crew Boo Yaa Tribe, in the process inventing the most justifiably maligned genre of recent years: nu metal. Bouboulena cover art collaboration by Halla Moda // Hassan Kinley and my amazing crew of creative friends Zac Presley Joshua Bailey Kornelija Slunjski love. F or a while rap/rock collaborations were an easy way to double your fun, at least during the late 80s and early 90s, when Run DMC and Aerosmith's Walk This Way and Public Enemy and Anthrax's Bring the Noise instantly located fertile common ground вЂ“ hedonism and unfocused rage respectively.

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